Oscar Simms is a London-based director.

He is currently a Junior Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, having previously been Young Artist Director with Waterperry Opera Festival.

Oscar has worked as an associate or assistant director for The Royal Opera, Opera North, Opera Holland Park, Edinburgh International Festival, Buxton International Festival, Southbank Centre, London Handel Festival, Royal Academy of Music, Waterperry Opera Festival, Arcola Theatre and Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

His 2023 production of Noye’s Fludde for the Pimlico Musical Foundation involved 200 children from 8 schools, with performances following a 6-week programme of in-school workshops that he developed, connecting Britten’s opera to curriculum teaching about climate change.

Other credits as Director include Opera For All for the Thames Opera Company, a schools production of The Magic Flute at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre involving 900 children, Noye’s Fludde for the Barnes Music Festival, The Lost Life of Tilly MacLeod for Artled Productions, Young Artist Gala for Waterperry Opera Festival, the second UK performance of Denis & Katya by Philip Venables and Ted Huffman in the Fitzwilliam Auditorium, and The Magic Flute for Cavatina Opera.

Oscar is a Trustee of Music & Theatre For All and believes that arts organisations should be enmeshed in the communities from which they originate. In 2023, he joined the Nurturing Talent programme with Create, a leading participatory arts charity in the UK, and Oscar continues to work with the organisation as a workshop facilitator in a range of settings.